Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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Joaquin is getting more and more mobile, and giving him a bath on your own is becoming more and more difficult: Baby wants to sit up, and he loves to lean to the side to touch and play with the container of fresh water we keep by the bath tub to rinse the soap and […]
For the last few months Joey has been assisting a judge for his Judicial Externship. A couple of days ago, while working, Joey’s feeling a little fidgety. He finally confides in the judge: “My wife may go into labor today… This morning she told me to stay alert because she had just passed the biggest […]
At childbirth classes, Vicky, our instructor (a maternity nurse at the hospital where I’ll deliver) makes all moms line up at the front of the room by due dates. I turn out to be the last one on the line, meaning the one with the farthest due date. Vicky comments on how we all carry […]
This morning, over IM:
Me: Mom saw alfajores with expiration date nov 28 (the day she gets here). She asked me if she should get them?
Joey: So we have to eat them all when she arrives
Me: She reminds me that last Christmas, the chocolate house was kind of stale, and you ate it with passion…
Joey: True-true
Me: […]
A long time ago, back in the time when Joey and I started dating, we attended a party at one of my coworkers’ home. One of my most memorable memories of that night is the visual of Joey trying to walk between a small table and a couch, of course not being able to fit, […]
My version of us as Simpsons characters:
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And without comparing notes, here’s Joey’s version:
He! he!… I love that he gave himself yellow-green hair. I’ve always told him that he has green hair.
As much as I think that there are more similarities than differences among the cultures of South America and North America, I have to admit to a few minor cultural clashes — and food sacrifices — I’ve had to overcome since I came to live in the U.S. Now, not being the typical Colombian who […]
—You know? I don’t think I’m pregnant, but I should not be having any alcohol or sushi any more… I mean: WHAT IF I was pregnant, and I just had a beer last night?
—Ok… But you said that you don’ think…
—I know… But I should be getting my period tomorrow and I still haven’t […]
With the Holidays coming so soon, today I’ve started working on the digital Christmas greeting we’ll send out to our friends and family this year. Compared to last year, I didn’t think I had enough ammunition of events happening in 2006, but I was surprised by the amount of images I was able to collect. […]
There was this time in college when a guy I didn’t know and I were paired as a team for our Physics Lab class. On the first lab, I started doing what I usually do: I grabbed the experiment instructions, read them for myself, and started manipulating the mechanical object we were supposed to work […]
Joining Joey in his late 30s and Jennifer in her early 30s, today I have experienced my first episode as an old fart…
For those that don’t know me very well, I should say that I am a poker-face scorpion, cold and smooth velvety thing that rarely se despeina when upset or frustrated. HOWEVER… in a […]
This afternoon, while riding the train back home from a work meeting, and in the middle of a sentence on my book, I turned around and noticed this woman:
At the time I saw her, she was placing her bag and getting settled on her seat, and I kept staring thinking of all the possibilities for […]
In college, I had a friend with whom I collected jokes. We realized that some of these were stupid, and we probably wouldn’t be laughing so hard at them if we hadn’t had those five shots of tequila earlier. Entries filed under “Funnier with Tequila” are about stuff that makes ME laugh. Others may need some alcohol to find them funny… But that’s ok.
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